Public affairs:

• Antics: First and foremost: a bunch of UO students went down a water slide!!!!! (KEZI)
• OSPIRG: The Emerald’s managing editor Lauren Fox writes a narrative about the recent history of OSPIRG. I think it can basically be summarized thus: “OSPIRG lost its funding at UO two years ago, but still wants to get it back and still pays someone to work on campus to get it. There are questions about Oregon Student PIRG’s relationship with Oregon State PIRG, although the article doesn’t make those entirely clear. Now, with Rousseau and Arora in power, they feel they have more hope. (Emerald)
• Embarrassment, dissected: Based on the fact that UO has risen in the U.S. News and World Report’s rankings, the Seattle Times calls Scott Woodward a liar. (Seattle Times)
• Lore: The UO offers students the chance to learn more than they can handle about Chinese folklore. (Ethos)
• ASUO: Since the ASUO Senate has been telling nominees they don’t have what it takes to be senators, the Emerald attempts to find out just what it takes; or at least that’s how the reporter explained it to me this evening. Takeaway quote: “a future concert, which is being designed to increase general student awareness of ASUO-related activities.” Way to take the fun out of a concert. (Emerald)
• Stodge: Here is an article about theories that does not explain theories. In that respect, it is reminiscent of the KCNA. (Emerald)

Opinion:

• Letters: In the Emerald, a UO student hypothesizes that the smoke-free campus means a campus where smoke is both unrestricted and nonexistent. Guard readers quibble with people and words and wish we were more like Japan.
• Editorials: The Guard is thinking about Washington, D.C., and the deficit; and it applauds the decline of metal thieves.
• UO Matters sneers at a piece of UO-flackery, uses “credibility” and “toilet” in the same sentence to describe UO,
• UO cheese Richard Lariviere shout-outs five veterans attending the UO and also Eugene’s resident war hero Don Malarkey in his official blog.
• A UO student says football’s a way to forget the misfortunes of our age. Panem, you say? And circenses? (Emerald)
• A “policy analyst” advocates a proposal like Lariviere’s, but with trees. (Guard)
• Jay-Z is probably on the devil’s payroll. Or maybe MC Hammer is. An Ethos writer is undecided. Another Ethos writer sees a cynical core in “Mao’s Last Dancer.” (Ethos)
• An Oregon Voice staffer’s mind is now open to the possibilities of Wednesday nights after a recent concert. Another at the Voice misinterprets Javier Mascherano‘s recent surprise appearance at  the UO. (Voice)

Sports:

• Oregon Football: will play its former offensive coordinator this weekend (Register-Guard); faces a team unbeaten at home this weekend, but then again this record includes poor teams (Emerald); is, by consensus between the editors of the Emerald and the Daily Californian, good (Emerald); will field its second-choice running-back, but not its second-choice quarterback if it can help it (Emerald); charging wall Carson York is embarrassed about liking a class with “women” in the name (Emerald); multi-use bulls-eye Lavasier Tuinei’s father was a football player (Emerald); has a cocky player (AP); thinks Steve Prefontaine was a chill bro (AP); will win against the Hated Bears, KVAL thinks (KVAL).
• Oregon Cross-Country: runner Luke Puskedra seems to excite people, despite an iron deficiency (Register-Guard); gets a do-over (heard that one from the Guard yesterday) (Emerald).
• Oregon Basketball (W): will actually be playing a real game against the Hated Wolves Sunday (Emerald, Guard).
• Oregon Basketball (M): will also play games that matter (or possibly “matter”) this weekend (Emerald, Guard).
• Oregon Volleyball: thinks it will probably beat the Hated Beavers this weekend, but finds them “incredibly scary” (Emerald).
• Other football: Andy Drukarev previews the Pac-10 games this weekend (Emerald).
• Emerald sports-whippet Patrick Malee believes in OF (Emerald).

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